Tag Archives: Tao Lin

Literary Luminaries: Gender and the Avant-Garde Novelist – Part I

Posted on September 8, 2014 by Sam Mills

“Beards vs. Vaginas,” the first of a two-part essay about literary fiction, gender, expectation, media bias, and the avant garde. Continue reading →

Posted in Literature, Politics | Tagged Ali Smith, Angela Carter, Barbara Cartland, Deborah Levy, Djuna Barnes, DWEMs, Eleanor Catton, Elissa Schappell, Gender, Jane Bowles, Jeanette Winterson, Kathy Acker, literary fiction, Lydia Davis, Lynne Tillman, Man Booker Prize, Nicola Barker, Sam Mills, Tao Lin | 4 Comments

Well “Red”: 8 Reasons Why Taylor Swift Should Date a Writer

Posted on March 5, 2013 by Greg Olear

If you want a “Love Story,” Taylor, you must love story. And the writers who craft it. Continue reading →

Posted in Literature, Popular Culture | Tagged “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together”, Anne Hathaway, Conor Kennedy, dating, Emma Stone, Harry Styles, Jake Gyllenhaal, James Franco, Joe Jonas, John Mayer, Kardashians, Lauren Cerand, Minka Kelly, Miranda July, Paris Review, Selena Gomez, Tao Lin, Taylor Lautner, Taylor Swift, teen heartthrobs, The Nervous Breakdown, Tin House, writers | 18 Comments

The End of the End of Everything: Fiction’s Fretful Futures, Part IV

Posted on January 31, 2013 by Sam Byers

In Part IV, of his 4-part series, Sam Byers looks at why the novel is dying and just why and how technology might save it. Continue reading →

Posted in The Arts | Tagged Idiopathy, Keith Ridgway, Tao Lin, Technology, the internet, the novel, Thomas Harris, Zadie Smith | 2 Comments

Strip it Down

Posted on May 4, 2012 by Janet Steen

In which Janet Steen wants to kiss your simple declarative sentence. Continue reading →

Posted in The Arts | Tagged Bob Dylan, Czeslaw Milosz John Barth, David Berman, Denis Johnson, Jonathan franzen, Madison Smartt Bell, minimalism, New York Observer, Tao Lin, Volvo 240 | Comments Off